Birth Kit Drive

Interested in a Birth Kit gathering in your community? Here is a list of items of that you make up a clean Birth Kit. You can create a Birth Kit for just under $5.00. Please contact us for more information on how to organize a gathering of your own.

Contact us directly at: info@villagebirthinternational.org

What is a Birth Kit?Essential birth items that help support a safe birth outcome for mother and baby. Clean birth kits help prevent maternal and neonatal deaths due to infection, preventing nearly 1 million deaths per year.

Birth Kit Drive Supplies:

Sterile gauze pads 3×3

Gloves size medium and large

Sterile gloves size 7-7.5

Suture vicryl or chromic gut 3.0 taper needle

Plastic sheeting

Razor blades

Chux underpads

Maxi pads (non-scented)

Menstrual cups

Non-scented individual bars of soap

Rolls of sterile string

Baby blankets, gently used or new

Baby shirts, gently used or new

Baby onesies, gently used or new

Baby hats, gently used or new

Mobile Midwifery Clinic

Other items needed:

Dopplers

BP cuffs-manual

Stethoscopes

Pitocin 10 ml vials – not expired

Lidocaine single use – not expired

Syringes 3ml with needle

Syringes 5 ml with needle

Sterile gauze pads 3×3

Delee suction catheter

Gloves size medium and large

Sterile gloves size 7-7.5

Suture vicryl or chromic gut 3.0 taper needle

Plastic sheeting

Razor blades

Rolls of sterile string

Baby blankets, gently used or new

Baby shirts, gently used or new

Baby onesies, gently used or new

Baby hats, gently used or new

Menstrual-cups, maxi-pads, cloth menstrual-pads

Financial donations will also support our project to pay for things like:

Birth supplies

Birth kits

Financial compensation for our midwives, TBAs, nurses

Midwifery trainings

Maternal and infant life saving skills workshops

Family planning, counseling, antenatal and postpartum classes

Vehicle for transport

Transportation funds

Food and clean water

Gas for generator

Funds for solar energy supplies

Thank you,

Florence Ochitti and Aimee Brill

Founders, Village Birth International-Gulu

We organize our donations and supplies on an ongoing basis. Thank you so much for your support!